Printmaker's Heritage: More than Gaelic

This installation chronicles my 2015 artist-in-residency in Ireland. Inspired by ancient the megalithic art, ideology, and Gaelic heritage, which is enmeshed in contemporary global culture, the carved and printed glyphs mimic megalithic carvings and translate into words and phrases, telling a literary story of my journey. It was originally exhibited with 65+ glyphs printed on 45 pages, bound into fifteen 7.5 foot high panels, and spanned 75 feet. Click on the individual images to see the installation and page translations.

More Than Gaelic

Printmaking Installation Overview This installation chronicles my 2015 artist-in-residency in Ireland. Inspired by ancient the megalithic art, ideology, and Gaelic heritage, which is enmeshed in contemporary global culture, the carved and printed glyphs mimic megalithic carvings and translate into words and phrases, telling a literary story of my journey. It was originally exhibited with 65+ glyphs printed on 45 pages, bound into fifteen 7.5 foot high panels, and spanned 75 feet. Click on the individual images to see the installation and page translations.

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More Than Gaelic

Installation Detail This installation chronicles my 2015 artist-in-residency in Ireland. Inspired by ancient the megalithic art, ideology, and Gaelic heritage, which is enmeshed in contemporary global culture, the carved and printed glyphs mimic megalithic carvings and translate into words and phrases, telling a literary story of my journey. It was originally exhibited with 65+ glyphs printed on 45 pages, bound into fifteen 7.5 foot high panels, and spanned 75 feet. Click on the individual images to see the installation and page translations.

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More Than Gaelic Panels 1-5

Panels # 1-5 of fifteen in the originally exhibited installation.

This installation chronicles my 2015 artist-in-residency in Ireland. Inspired by ancient the megalithic art, ideology, and Gaelic heritage, which is enmeshed in contemporary global culture, the carved and printed glyphs mimic megalithic carvings and translate into words and phrases, telling a literary story of my journey. It was originally exhibited with 65+ glyphs printed on 45 pages, bound into fifteen 7.5 foot high panels, and spanned 75 feet. Click on the individual images to see the installation and page translations.

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More Than Gaelic Panels 7-10

Panels # 7-10 of fifteen panels in the originally exhibited installation. This installation chronicles my 2015 artist-in-residency in Ireland. Inspired by ancient the megalithic art, ideology, and Gaelic heritage, which is enmeshed in contemporary global culture, the carved and printed glyphs mimic megalithic carvings and translate into words and phrases, telling a literary story of my journey. It was originally exhibited with 65+ glyphs printed on 45 pages, bound into fifteen 7.5 foot high panels, and spanned 75 feet. Click on the individual images to see the installation and page translations.

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More Than Gaelic Panels 11-15

Panels # 11-15 of fifteen panels in the originally exhibited installation. This installation chronicles my 2015 artist-in-residency in Ireland. Inspired by ancient the megalithic art, ideology, and Gaelic heritage, which is enmeshed in contemporary global culture, the carved and printed glyphs mimic megalithic carvings and translate into words and phrases, telling a literary story of my journey. It was originally exhibited with 65+ glyphs printed on 45 pages, bound into fifteen 7.5 foot high panels, and spanned 75 feet. Click on the individual images to see the installation and page translations.

More Than Gaelic

This installation chronicles my 2015 artist-in-residency in Ireland. Inspired by ancient the megalithic art, ideology, and Gaelic heritage, which is enmeshed in contemporary global culture, the carved and printed glyphs mimic megalithic carvings and translate into words and phrases, telling a literary story of my journey. It was originally exhibited with 65+ glyphs printed on 45 pages, bound into fifteen 7.5 foot high panels, and spanned 75 feet. Click on the individual images to see the installation and page translations.

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More than Gaelic

Printmaking & Storytelling Installation This installation chronicles my 2015 artist-in-residency in Ireland. Inspired by ancient the megalithic art, ideology, and Gaelic heritage, which is enmeshed in contemporary global culture, the carved and printed glyphs mimic megalithic carvings and translate into words and phrases, telling a literary story of my journey. It was originally exhibited with 65+ glyphs printed on 45 pages, bound into fifteen 7.5 foot high panels, and spanned 75 feet. Click on the individual images to see the installation and page translations.

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More Than Gaelic: The Story of a Printmaker's Guide to Finding Her Heritage

More Than Gaelic

This installation chronicles my 2015 artist-in-residency in Ireland. Inspired by ancient the megalithic art, ideology, and Gaelic heritage, which is enmeshed in contemporary global culture, the carved and printed glyphs mimic megalithic carvings and translate into words and phrases, telling a literary story of my journey. It was originally exhibited with 65+ glyphs printed on 45 pages, bound into fifteen 7.5 foot high panels, and spanned 75 feet. Click on the individual images to see the installation and page translations.

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More than Gaelic Page 1

Page 1 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The travelers, and printmaking friends, are filled with hope. They journey by day and night over the long big water.

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Page 2 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: They are welcomed into the green city of rain, potatoes, and kindness.

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Page 3 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: They walk through the city streets well into night. Feeling a sense of community, they join others at the pub for beer, fish and chips.

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Page 4 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: Their next stop is a place of rocks, history, and heritage.

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Page 5 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: A place of passage, representing the maiden, mother, and crone, and the feminine force that brings forth life.

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Page 6 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: This is Newgrange, an ancient spiritual and ceremonial passage temple of life, death, and birth – or rebirth. Over 5000 years old, it represents time as circular rather than linear.

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Page 7 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The printmaking travelers are given a bold sense of ancient femininity and inspiration.

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Page 8 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The next day, the hope-filled travelers journey through the rain and fog, over wet streets.

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Page 9 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: They journey on narrow roads, passing lush green hills and mountains, on their way to the land by the water.

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Page 10 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: Evening settles. Dense fog rolls in and they can see almost nothing else.

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Page 11 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The sun goes down and night begins. They follow foggy, narrow, rock walled roads until they arrive at the ocean.

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Page 12 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: By nightfall they reach their remote cottage.

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Page 13 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The next morning, they discover the cottages by the ocean are surrounded by hills and mountains filled with rocks and rock walls, flowers and plants.

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Page 14 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: And Sheep.

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Page 15 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: They are in the lush green lands of hope, with flowers, plants, farmland and ruins.

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Page 16 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: It is the land of rain.

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Page 17 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: They are in the Ballinskelligs, the green land of the monks, rock mountains in the ocean, the Wild Atlantic Way, and ruins.

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Page 18 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The friends travel on the roads past lush greenery in search of Cill Railaig and the printmaking studio.

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Page 19 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The bold women friends are inspired. They are ready to print and create art.

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Page 20 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: They create and print for many days at Cill Rialaig Art Center.

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Page 21 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: They create with potatoes, Irish rain and grains.

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Page 22 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: At nights the bold feminine friends gather with men and women at the pub and toast to good health with Irish beer.

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Page 23 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: One day, the travelers journey with a boat captain through the big water, to the island mountains of rock, history, heritage and the sacred graves of the monks.

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Page 24 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: They travel through choppy water in the rain and fog, where the dolphins, whales and seabirds play.

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Page 25 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The bold women hike and climb up many steep and rugged rock stairs in the rain and fog.

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Page 26 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: Sceilig Mhichíl, Skellig Michael, is an abandoned monastery with the homes and graves from the monks long ago.

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Page 27 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: It is also the home of many birds.

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Page 28 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The boat captain prepares fresh fish during their journey back to their cottage by the sea.

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Page 29 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: On the night of the summer solstice and longest day of the year, the friends gather at the pub. They make new life-long friends, tell stories, and learn more about their Irish heritage while toasting to good health.

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Page 30 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: Late into the night, more friends gathered at the pub to enjoy fish and chips and toast to good health with pints of Irish beer.

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Page 31 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The next morning the sun shone brightly as they hiked along the pebble filled beach.

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Page 32 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: To a place where strong currents left many rocks and history; a place with ruins and more graves of monks.

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Page 33 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: It is a sacred place of worship and passage.

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Page 34 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The Abbey has centuries of graves, from ancient to new.

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Page 35 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: Next, the friends gathered with their storytelling friends and Irish kindred spirits, and made new stories of their own. They hike to another site of the monks.

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Page 36 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The dear women friends carried another to the sacred passage site.

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Page 37 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: It is a pilgrimage site, known for finding inspiration and good health – a place of healing the monks called St Michael’s Well.

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Page 38 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: They released the remains of the precious friend to fly to her place of inspiration.

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Page 39 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The printmakers travel back to the printshop at Cill Rialaig, to gather their art made with potatoes, Irish rain and grain.

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Page 40 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: That night, they gathered at the pub with their dear friends and the village men, to toast and say thank you, which translates from Gaelic to “may you have goodness.”

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Page 41 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: Then they say thank you, “may you have goodness,” to Cill Rialaig Art Center, their cottage at the artist village, and the good lands of the Ballinskelligs.

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Page 42 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: In a ceremony with potatoes.

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Page 43 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The next morning they travel through wet rainy roads, dense fog, and past villages, sheep, flowers, and lush green patchwork landscapes.

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Page 44 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: The printmaking friends arrive back in the big city. As evening falls, the friends, who are filled with Irish inspiration, say goodnight and 'goodbye for now.' They head back on a long journey, across the big water to their own homes. Their travels have come full circle.

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Page 45 of 45 of originally exhibited installation: And she is imprinted with her heritage… ### The End And New Beginnings